Re: DHCP: multiple hardware address?

[gartmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Christoph Gartmann)]

In article <01MX547U58SG8Y55J4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Selden E Ball Jr 
<seb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>Ken wrote
>> I have toyed with the idea of assigning the same IP to wired and
>> wireless nics of a single laptop, but haven't put that into production yet.
>
>We've done that for years.

The question is how to do it properly. If we do it like in my example it is
somehow working but takes a long time (around 80 seconds) for the client to
get its address.

So we do it differently and make a separate entry for each address, e.g.

host Mac485_E1 {
  hardware ethernet 00:1f:5b:35:77:2c;
  fixed-address 10.1.4.31;
  option host-name "Mac485";
}
host Mac485_E2 {
  hardware ethernet 00:1f:5b:35:77:2d;
  fixed-address 10.1.4.31;
  option host-name "Mac485";
}

But I would prefer to have it all in a single statement, e.g.

host Mac485_E1 {
  hardware ethernet 00:1f:5b:35:77:2c;
  hardware ethernet 00:1f:5b:35:77:2d;
  fixed-address 10.1.4.31;
  option host-name "Mac485";
}

It shouldn't be a big deal for Process to make the above thing work a bit
faster.

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann

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